size of symbols on GNOME panel inappropriate

[Christian Lehmann]

Binary package hint: yelp

Ubuntu 9.10, GNOME (2.28?)
The following is not a technical bug, but a feature whose design is inappropriate. The issue is, thus, userfriendliness.

In the GNOME panel, symbols are sized automatically by an algorithm that looks whether the shortest dimension X of the panel is width or height, accordingly fixes the width or the height of each symbol to the same value as X and finally calculates the other dimension Y of each symbol in proportion to X. The extension Y of each synbol then, of course, determines how many symbols fit on the panel.

This has the following consequence: Assume the panel is vertically arranged. Then the wider I size the panel, the higher become the symbols. The consequence is, of course, that the wider I size the panel, the fewer symbols fit on it. This is counterproductive. The solution seems to be: Allow the user to fix an upper value for symbol size (either X or Y, if the proportion calculus is to be maintained). Or else fix such an upper value yourself.

[Curtis Lee Bolin (curtisleebolin)]

why would you want a wider panel with small icons? Are you wanting 2 or more levels of icons?

[Mitch Towner (kermiac)]

Changed the package to gnome-panel as this is not a yelp issue.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.